With or Without You.......U2

Loneliness...........Roger Taylor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpdBZFQMps

Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room - Dwight Yoakam

One - Three Dog Night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz79ZYo0erQ&feature=fvwrel 

Alone again,naturally  - Gilbert O. Sullivan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eki_PRzNk-Y

Sam Cooke, later recorded by Cat Stevens and Jimmy Buffett

Another Saturday Night

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I got some money 'cause I just got paid
How I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way

(Ouch)

Another from Dwight Yoakam:

Guitars Cadillacs and Hillbilly Music

"...along the lonely streets that I call home..."

A couple more by Tom Rush - No Regrets - Panama Limited - "...she's gone everywhere but home"
               
           

Lonely People -- America

Alone -- Heart

Lonely in Love -- Dan Fogelberg

Empty Chairs -- Don McClean

One -- Harry Nilsson

Don't Leave Me Now -- Supertramp

All By Myself -- Eric Carmen

Sound of Silence -- Simon and Garfunkel

Is Anybody Out There -- Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here -- Pink Floyd

Two of Us -- The Beatles

Miss You -- Eric Clapton

She's Gone -- Clapton

The Loner -- Neil Young
 
Ask the Lonely -- Journey

Tea for One -- Led Zeppelin

One more

Without You -- Harry Nilsson (Badfinger)

In response to royf19's comment:


Great list, Roy.  "Alone" by Heart is a killer and a fave of mine.  

In response to yogafriend's comment:



Talk about "lonely"...!

Consider, if you will, the sad case of Billy Squier, who in a much simpler and more ignorant time, was virtually banished from the rock world due to an ill-considered, campy video  (and no, not of the tommy-pamela lee varie-tay).

He is like one of those poor souls who spends decades on death row, only to be exonerated by evidence that fell behind the filing cabinet.

Billy really deserves his own thread...and yes, his relative status among boston's musical homies.

I figure the least we can do is a tribute album...or maybe his own reality show.

Don't Pass Me By - Beatles...

Patsy Cline was really rather a babe, but almost always sang of lonliness, and ya just know she meant it (and yes, I know Willy wrote Crazy).

But is there anyone who harps on lonliness and isolation more that Roger Waters?

and quite well I might add!

Back in the late 70's/early 80's we figured out what made a bad trip.  Rejection and it's subsequent lonliness.  This led to the Clam Up, which was the bad trip about to happen, and I have rescued many a friend from that circular trap.

I remember Dan Akroyd doing (a GREAT) Jimmy Carter on a radio show taking calls.  Dude calls up and says he's having a bad acid trip.  The Jock says, uhm, not for this show with a President.

But Jimmy (Dan) says, No, I think I can help here.  Take it easy, put on some music - some Allman Brothers, maybe some Greatful Dead - BUT NO PINK FLOYD!.

Dan knew.

Lonely is the Night! - See Billy Squire thread

People differ. Never understood how people get stuck in such a loop. Never did, despite many opportunities.

I suppose if one got arrested, it would be a bit of a 'bummer'....     then again, that's easy to avoid if you are good at keeping yourself together.

 

I been alone
Always down
No one cared to stay around
I never change
I never will
I'm so afraid the way I feel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l6mce3LdkyA

Tears for Fears - Mad World (later re-arranged brilliantly and performed by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews for the movie Donnie Darko)

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

 

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World

Lonely Avenue - Ray Charles

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8O_0xiOdEE

Lonesome Suzie - The Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V90X9bvMRZI

Whispering Pines - The Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ciJgjbi74

 

In response to yogafriend's comment:

This was a great idea for a thread.

Teenage Idol - Ricky Nelson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfGaO_8Ncn8

In response to royf19's comment: This was a great idea for a thread.

Hey, thanks.   What's nice is that quite a few people have come out of the woodwork, so maybe it's not as lonely as it was a few days ago.   I hope that trend will persist.  :)

Alone In The Dark - John Hiatt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyNun3IUoz4

Alone and Forsaken - Hank Williams

... and check out the version by Neil Young and Dave Matthews during the Hope for Haiti benefit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO9l4IVGWXc 

 

Just discovered this Steve Earle gem (Lonelier than This):

http://youtu.be/JS0yWYkT8PU

Sad Song, Hardy Hemphill

Can't isolate Sad Song on this page, but this is the only one I can find that plays the whole thing.  The beginning is very soft, but stay tuned...the piano comes in at about 30 seconds.

http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/1370554